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Welcome to the Wednesday, Feb. 12, Brew. Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day:
- Sanders, Trump win New Hampshire presidential primaries
- Petitioners of opposing forest initiatives in Oregon will work together on regulation
- Filing deadline roundup
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Sanders, Trump win New Hampshire presidential primaries
Bernie Sanders won the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday night. With 94% of precincts reporting, Sanders received 26% of the vote, followed by Pete Buttigieg with 24% and Amy Klobuchar with 20%. No other candidate received more than 10% of the vote.
Since Democratic candidates must receive more than 15% of the vote to be considered viable, only the three top finishers will be allocated pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Sanders and Buttigieg are projected to receive nine delegates each. Klobuchar is projected to receive six.
Raw voter turnout in the Democratic primary was projected to be the highest of all New Hampshire Democratic primaries since 2004. The previous record was 285,000 voters in the 2008 primary.
President Donald Trump won the Republican primary with 86% support. He is projected to earn at least 20 of the state’s 22 delegates. Bill Weld came in second with 9% of the vote.
Also, Democratic candidates Andrew Yang and Michael Bennet ended their presidential campaigns. CBS News reported Tuesday night that Deval Patrick (D) will end his presidential campaign Wednesday morning.
The next presidential nominating event is in Nevada, which holds a Democratic caucus on Feb. 22. Beginning in 2008, Nevada has been the first Western state in the presidential election cycle to hold a primary or caucus. Early voting—which will use ranked-choice voting—begins on Saturday. Candidates will participate in the next Democratic debate, also in Nevada, on Feb. 19.
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Petitioners of competing forest initiatives in Oregon will work together on regulation
On Monday, petitioners of competing ballot initiatives that would change forest regulations in Oregon announced they signed an agreement to work together to pass regulations via the legislature rather than the initiative process.
In October 2019, petitioners backed by conservationist group Oregon Wild filed three initiatives (#45-47) that would limit aerial pesticide treatments and logging near water bodies. In response, Jim James, executive director of the Oregon Small Woodlands Association, as well as two owners of several hundred acres of Oregon forest, filed three initiatives including the Compensation for Loss of Property Value Due to State Regulation Initiative. That measure would require that timber companies be compensated for economic losses produced by the proposed pesticide and logging regulations. The agreement announced this week requires that both sides refrain from pursuing these initiatives and related legal actions while they work together on new regulations.
Thirteen conservationist groups including Oregon Wild, the Audubon Society of Portland, and the Oregon League of Conservation Voters and thirteen timber companies including Stimson Lumber, Roseburg Forest Products, and Weyerhaeuser signed the cooperative memorandum.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s (D) office facilitated the meetings between the two sides leading up to the agreement. The groups will work together to alter the Oregon Forest Practices Act of 1971, in addition to passing new legislation. The agreement sets up an 18-month process to establish a federally approved habitat conservation plan, which would take into account the Endangered Species and Clean Water Acts and the interests of the timber industry. Additionally, the two sides agreed to support a bill that would limit aerial pesticide treatments and allow regulations that would restrict logging near streams in southern Oregon’s Siskiyou region.
Conservation proponents behind the Oregon Forest Water Protection from Pesticides and Logging Initiatives (Initiatives #45-47) filed the petitions on October 2, 2019. The initiatives would regulate the use of aerial pesticide treatments and logging near forest water bodies.
Proponents of the Oregon Scientific Standards for Forest Regulation Initiative, the State Board of Forestry Oversight Changes Initiative, and the Compensation for Loss of Property Value Due to State Regulation Initiative (Initiatives #53-56) filed the petitions on November 5, 2019. The measures would:
- Add a review process for the State Board of Forestry to determine if forest regulation complies with current science;
- Increase the number of members on the State Board of Forestry and supply rules for filling vacancies and term limit; and
- Amend Oregon's Constitution to add that landowners must be compensated if they lose all economic value of their property due to state laws in effect after January 1, 2020.
Neither side of the agreement has formally withdrawn their petitions with the Oregon Secretary of State.
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Filing deadline roundup
The second candidate filing deadline in February, and the 13th nationwide, is on Tuesday, February 18, in Pennsylvania. The next statewide filing deadline is on March 2 in Nebraska. Sixteen states have filing deadlines in March.
The offices up for election in Pennsylvania include the state auditor, attorney general, and treasurer, all 18 U.S. House districts, 25 of the state’s 50 Senate seats, and all 203 state House seats. Pennsylvania’s Democratic and Republican primaries take place April 28.
Pennsylvania has been a divided government since 2015 when the state’s Republican trifecta was broken by the election of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. A trifecta exists when one political party simultaneously holds the governor’s office and majorities in both state legislative chambers.
Partisan candidates must file nominating petitions and candidate affidavits with the Pennsylvania Secretary of State and pay a filing fee. Independent and minor party candidates must obtain signatures from voters of the district equal to at least 2% of the largest entire vote cast for an elected candidate in the last election in the district.
Click the link below to see a full list of 2020 candidate filing deadlines and primary elections.
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